Using this standalone requires a separate render. Should I stabilize and render in Marcelli first and then bring the video into Vegas for further editing (and then render again), or edit and render in Vegas first, bring the rendered video into Marcelli to stabilize, and render again in Marcelli?
Any workflow (and render setting )suggestions would be appreciated.
My workflow is to stabilise and render each video event in Mercalli 4 SAL, rendering to a specially named sub-folder in the project folder on the D drive. I then bring those events onto the VP timeline to a video track named Mercalli.
Using this method, the stabilisation settings in Mercalli can be tailored to suit the stabilisation required for that shot. For example, using the Rock Steady Camera setting would often be the choice where the shot is reasonably static and you are trying to achieve a tripod steady look; but Rock Steady Camera would not likely work successfully if you are just trying to steady a moving shot or panning/tilting/zooming camera shot.
I think that's where your second approach (stabilising the final rendered edit from VP) would not likely work as the Mercalli settings would then be global, applying to all shots in the project, thus not being tailored to the idiosyncrasies of each individual shot. An exception could possibly be where the entire production to be stabilised consists of similar shots such as "talking heads", and stabilisation is really being used as a tidy up.
Thank you. This makes sense to me. The video I have in mind was shot of a relatively static subject from a monopod with a telephoto lens. (I’m just not as steady as I used to be.).
Do you prefer a particular codec on your render from Marcelli, e.g., ProRes, etc.?
My original footage is 4K AVCHD (8 bits) from a Sony AX100 camera. In Mercalli 4, I render to AVC/H264 (mp4) at the recommended 'medium' setting. I recall from a ProDad tutorial (or the like) years ago, maybe for Mercalli 3, that ProDad's testing showed no discernable quality difference between the medium and high render settings other than a much larger file size with 'high'.